TV never takes any chances; they never do anything different.
Positional play is good for training, but in games, to win matches, you need someone who can go past defenders and take chances.
Tennis is a small window. You’re not going to have unlimited chances, unlimited opportunities. You can’t waste time.
So long as the Oregon question is left open, Mexico will calculate the chances of a rupture between us and Great Britain, in the event of which she would be prepared to make common cause against us. But when an end is put to any such hope, she will speedily settle her difference with us.
This is the land of getting over. The land of second or even third chances; the land of doing whatever you have to do by any means necessary in order to fulfill the American Dream.
I like to have the ball, to have possession and to play passes, to create chances for my team-mates. I think that is what makes me strong.
The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side.
If your parents never had children, chances are… neither will you.
When my country was born, many people were sceptical about the chances for us to exist, let alone prosper.
You don’t get any second chances.
I like second chances. I’ve given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It’s not easy to forgive. I definitely don’t forget, but I do forgive.
Wealthy parents have long relied on a properly timed donation to improve their children’s chances at admission to college.
Normally movies have the same people they use over and over for everything. It’s called typecasting. They don’t like to take chances. They’ll go with the guy they had before.
I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who’s most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren’t great, mind you. But I’ll take my chances with the 21st century.
Even if you were to start drinking milk during adolescence in an attempt to bolster peak bone mass, it probably wouldn’t reduce your chances of fracture later in life.
Pick friends who make poor choices, and you could get dragged down fast. But, if you choose friends who inspire and challenge you to become better, you’ll increase your chances of reaching your goals.
There’s no use to have 70 percent possession if the opponent is creating more chances than you are.
I’m a striker. I feel I can have my greatest impact there because I’m free to roam around the pitch, take players on, have shots and create chances.
Woody Allen has a wonderful line: ‘Today I’m a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?’ That’s very important to know – that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don’t have chances to take.
I don’t know, people take chances on stage. It’s a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.
Sometimes you have to wait. Sometimes you have to be patient, and your chances will come.
People ask if I would do the TT myself – the actual romance of doing it is in me but the chances are zero. I can’t belittle the talent and the bravery and the endurance that goes into a race like this. The competitors are some of the bravest men on the planet and it is one of the biggest challenges a racer can take on.
When I came to Chennai from Coimbatore after my graduation, looking for acting chances, it was for dubbing that I was first tried.
For me, it’s always been about doing different things… If you’re still jazzed about the possibilities, the chances of you coming up with stuff that has flavor is more conceivable. It keeps you going. Like working with the younger artists. It reminded us of who we are. Sometimes you need that.
Our first thought is always for those on life’s first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.
I’m not afraid to take chances or go off on my own.
When you have chances against the top guys, and you couldn’t make it, then they take advantage of the game.
No matter how commonplace or dull your first job’s duties seem, chances are you can find something to do that others don’t want to and make it your own.
I know I’m a better bowler and create more chances if I get a batsman indecisive in defence.
I’ve taken a lot of chances in my life.
I’ve definitely been typecast, but I have time to do other things and I was glad to have the chances I did.
The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.
My mom is surely worried that the fact that I don’t have a college degree will impact my chances of finding a bride.
Approaching life through ’40 Chances’ gives reasons to hope and actions to take, and it offers fresh approaches that our world desperately needs.
When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don’t like to have a situation placed over my head.
I always get everyone prepared so there aren’t so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we’re shooting that day. It’s time-consuming, but it reduces the chances of ‘misunderstandings’ on set.
I know there are no guarantees of winning and the only thing we have is to work on chances. If you want guarantees buy a washing machine.
With Gaga – she’s not afraid to take chances. You get these dynamic projects because of it. She’s completely unafraid.
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
If you don’t allow yourself to change from book to book – take chances – it turns into a dullish job with no health benefits or pension plan and only intermittent paychecks.
This much I’m sure of. Chances for winning = 1 – (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That’s a fraction.
I’ve sacrificed a lot to get to the top, to the world title. I really sacrificed, and I took a lot of chances. I did a lot of favors, I felt like, for the UFC and I don’t think it got returned.
Audiences have become so much more sophisticated, and they’re looking for different eyes and different ways to tell a story. And ‘Scandal’ certainly gives us the freedom to take those chances.
Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.
Anytime you have a reelection campaign against an incumbent president and you’re the party out of power – on the one hand it’s wide open because there’s not an heir apparent – but people are also gauging how strong is that incumbent president and what are my chances.
I believe in second chances and I have strong faith in God that he forgives our sins.
I like to take chances.
The chances of a child coming through as I did… the world is too hard. On the other hand, I would always encourage children of mine if they wanted to be in school plays and dance and sing. But I wouldn’t put them to work.
You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn’t want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.
The more you expect out of a person, place or party, the higher your chances of disappointment.
I’ve worked my butt off to get to where I am. I know that any chances that I’m getting is because I’ve worked hard and I’ve gotten myself to this level.
What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you’re going to fly off the handle at everything and that’s what I did in the past. I’ve kind of got that under control now.
It’s not important how many mistakes you make; it’s about how many chances you create and how many goals you score. That is my philosophy.
We get second chances. We get 19th chances.
I think the culture of the red carpet is too much like a modern-day coliseum. If you’re being photographed all the time, and you don’t like having a bad photograph taken, and if you’re super, super thin, chances are you’re never going to look fat in a picture.
As a striker, you always try to convert your chances, give everything when training.
My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
